[PHP-WEBMASTER] [web-php] master: Announce PHP 8.5.0RC5

Author: Daniel Scherzer (DanielEScherzer)
Date: 2025-11-13T14:40:50-08:00

Commit: https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/cf80cca42c7e9f948a09d4dde3113b615f0347a9
Raw diff: https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/cf80cca42c7e9f948a09d4dde3113b615f0347a9.diff

Announce PHP 8.5.0RC5

Changed paths:
  A  archive/entries/2025-11-13-1.xml
  M  archive/archive.xml
  M  include/release-qa.php


Diff:

diff --git a/archive/archive.xml b/archive/archive.xml
index fc557c28d9..0617299b0f 100644
--- a/archive/archive.xml
+++ b/archive/archive.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     <uri>http://php.net/contact</uri>
     <email>[email protected]</email>
   </author>
+  <xi:include href="entries/2025-11-13-1.xml"/>
   <xi:include href="entries/2025-11-06-1.xml"/>
   <xi:include href="entries/2025-10-31-1.xml"/>
   <xi:include href="entries/2025-10-23-3.xml"/>
diff --git a/archive/entries/2025-11-13-1.xml b/archive/entries/2025-11-13-1.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..daa3685863
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archive/entries/2025-11-13-1.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
+  <title>PHP 8.5.0 RC 5 available for testing</title>
+  <id>https://www.php.net/archive/2025.php#2025-11-13-1</id>
+  <published>2025-11-13T22:39:02+00:00</published>
+  <updated>2025-11-13T22:39:02+00:00</updated>
+  <link href="https://www.php.net/index.php#2025-11-13-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
+  <link href="https://www.php.net/archive/2025.php#2025-11-13-1" rel="via" type="text/html"/>
+  <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/>
+  <content type="xhtml">
+    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+     <p>
+         The PHP team is pleased to announce the fifth release candidate of PHP 8.5.0, RC 5.
+         This continues the PHP 8.5 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the
+         <a href="https://wiki.php.net/todo/php85">PHP Wiki</a>.
+     </p>
+     <p>For source downloads of PHP 8.5.0 RC5, please visit the <a href="https://downloads.php.net/~daniels">download page</a>.</p>
+     <p>Please carefully test this version and report any issues found <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/new?template=bug_report.yml">on GitHub</a>.</p>
+     <p><strong>Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is a test version.</strong></p>
+     <p>For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-8.5.0RC5/NEWS">NEWS</a> file, or the <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-8.5.0RC5/UPGRADING">UPGRADING</a> file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive.</p>
+     <p>The next release will be the GA release of PHP 8.5.0, planned for 20 Nov 2025.</p>
+     <p>The signatures for the release can be found in the <a href="https://gist.github.com/DanielEScherzer/bc2eb22adfab2826894ea31853d57ce0">manifest</a> or on the <a href="https://www.php.net/release-candidates.php">Release Candidates page</a>.</p>
+     <p>Thank you for helping us make PHP better.</p>
+    </div>
+  </content>
+</entry>
diff --git a/include/release-qa.php b/include/release-qa.php
index 8b28167562..dc5d5b31e4 100644
--- a/include/release-qa.php
+++ b/include/release-qa.php
@@ -101,12 +101,12 @@
         'active'  => true,
         'release' => [
             'type'       => 'RC',
-            'number'     => 4,
-            'sha256_bz2' => 'c0d236b682447849f36b38df9619edbc6b1e82f9badafe1a719f0e662b9542d5',
-            'sha256_gz'  => 'eaeb71efaba8bfaacd9977cc2c2c24470cda974364afcac07d74f9861b065653',
-            'sha256_xz'  => '8f4be4b852221d65e20e64c2f86d79cba7f0e0eff8bba0e293c2c757ab12fbe6',
-            'date'       => '06 Nov 2025',
-            'baseurl'    => 'https://downloads.php.net/~edorian/',
+            'number'     => 5,
+            'sha256_bz2' => '0d5f8b55a0f5350c55526e34372037348e0bc959d14d7f8e25d7b3237be2fc63',
+            'sha256_gz'  => 'c57233825070238a00dee8712487b4859fa35f597e3c365adddfad13578ffb87',
+            'sha256_xz'  => '4964cdbaf2447afba100c4199ec9c59c41ca4cc23db8d1e38ac7e57aab028954',
+            'date'       => '13 Nov 2025',
+            'baseurl'    => 'https://downloads.php.net/~daniels/',
         ],
     ],
 ];